Are you generating one big HDF5 file or one per time step or one per time step per process?
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Eric E. Monson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > So far we have just used Xdmf/HDF5 and ParaView to view data from > small runs on a single machine, where we generate a time series as the > simulation progresses by appending snapshots of the data to the same > HDF5 file. As we work towards larger simulations (on a cluster) which > will run much longer, my collaborators are wondering whether we will > be able to view any of the data before the whole run is over? This > could be a snapshot of the current state, or the ability to animate > the data up to the most recent time step, and it wouldn't have to be > an auto-update, as in "Animating Live Data" (although they would like > this ability, too :). > > Do any of you have experience checking on your Xdmf/HFD5 data while > it's being generated? And, if so, are there any special tricks to it? > (I know I had trouble reading an HDF5 file one time that I hadn't > closed properly, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are issues > regarding whether the file is closed between writes, but I don't know > if there are other issues, too.) > > Thanks for the help, > -Eric > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Eric E Monson > Duke Visualization Technology Group > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xdmf mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xdmf > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
